Usage:
Ropes Creek Metabasalt (AL*,GA*)
Ropes Creek Amphibolite of Dadeville Complex (AL*,GA*)
Subunits:
Cedar Lake Member (GA*,AL*)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic(?) to Middle Ordovician(?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures along Ropes Creek, northeast Lee Co., AL. (Bentley and Neathery, 1970).
[Type locality is actually in northwest Lee Co. according to Steltenpohl and others, 1990.]
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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